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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
Here's the situation.... You have a user with a name-logon, example *jthomas* = Jane Thomas. She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. The suggested method I found on a Google search was just as cumbersome as using the Transfer Wizard AND did NOT work properly. The biggest problem is having to setup the default network printer manually AND having to re-setup MS Office Outlook from scratch. -- =========== Tecknomage =========== Computer Systems Specialist ComputerHelpForum.org Staff Member IT Technician San Diego, CA |
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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
Start\Run and type in control userpasswords2 . There you can change it by
selecting the name \Properties Find it odd that according to your sig you do not know how to change it -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Tecknomage" wrote in message ... Here's the situation.... You have a user with a name-logon, example *jthomas* = Jane Thomas. She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. The suggested method I found on a Google search was just as cumbersome as using the Transfer Wizard AND did NOT work properly. The biggest problem is having to setup the default network printer manually AND having to re-setup MS Office Outlook from scratch. -- =========== Tecknomage =========== Computer Systems Specialist ComputerHelpForum.org Staff Member IT Technician San Diego, CA |
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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
Tecknomage wrote in :
She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. If I were to do this, the simplest way that I know would be to pretend that the current user profile as being corrupt and follow this procedure to recover the profile: "How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473 This means, of course, that the user registry does not copy over and must be regenerated. So all preferences would be lost and need to be re-created... Which probably means network printer and Outlook will need to be regenerated... so you're probably not much better off than your current solution. HTH, JW |
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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:41:10 -0500, "Peter Foldes"
wrote: Start\Run and type in control userpasswords2 . There you can change it by selecting the name \Properties Find it odd that according to your sig you do not know how to change it Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://www.microsoft.com/protect First I know how to change a user logon which can be done via Computer Management. Problem, *the last time I did that*, the WinXP made a NEW profile entry for the new logon. I trying to find a way to avoid that. Now I admit I could have made a mistake in that instance. Has anyone actually tested just renaming a user? A thought, looking at a user logon entry, would this work: 1) From another administrator account, rename the *profile* (using example below "janderson") 2) Rename the user logon to "janderson" 3) In the logon [Properties] dialog, [Profile] tab, under "User profile" "Profile path" enter/paste the path to the new profile "janderson" I think the mistake I made when I last tried is step #3. If I had done that it may have worked. "Tecknomage" wrote in message ... Here's the situation.... You have a user with a name-logon, example *jthomas* = Jane Thomas. She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. The suggested method I found on a Google search was just as cumbersome as using the Transfer Wizard AND did NOT work properly. The biggest problem is having to setup the default network printer manually AND having to re-setup MS Office Outlook from scratch. -- =========== Tecknomage =========== Computer Systems Specialist ComputerHelpForum.org Staff Member IT Technician San Diego, CA |
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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:29:51 -0800, John Wunderlich
wrote: Tecknomage wrote in : She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. If I were to do this, the simplest way that I know would be to pretend that the current user profile as being corrupt and follow this procedure to recover the profile: "How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473 This means, of course, that the user registry does not copy over and must be regenerated. So all preferences would be lost and need to be re-created... Which probably means network printer and Outlook will need to be regenerated... so you're probably not much better off than your current solution. HTH, JW Thanks, but what you state in your last paragraph is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. -- =========== Tecknomage =========== Computer Systems Specialist ComputerHelpForum.org Staff Member IT Technician San Diego, CA |
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WinXP - Renaming a User Logon?
On 29/11/2011 3:06 PM, Tecknomage wrote:
Here's the situation.... You have a user with a name-logon, example *jthomas* = Jane Thomas. She gets married and insists you change her logon to *janderson* = Jane Anderson (married name) on the same desktop. What is the *simplest* way to do that? (step-by-step where possible) That means changing her logon AND keeping her Profile (Documents and Settings) the SAME. That is, under *Documents and Settings* change "jthomas" profile to "janderson" profile. The suggested method I found on a Google search was just as cumbersome as using the Transfer Wizard AND did NOT work properly. The biggest problem is having to setup the default network printer manually AND having to re-setup MS Office Outlook from scratch. All you have to do is rename her login. This will change her login name, but it won't actually rename her profile folders or anything. Yousuf Khan |
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